HP ProLiant DL380e/p G8 servers storage expansion

HP ProLiant DL380e/p G8 servers storage expansion

Adding:
20 x HGST 900GB 10K 6Gbps 64MB 2.5" SAS HDD HUC109090CSS600 A2

Disk status lights:
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/...

Following versions will not work
General issue is HP does not support Windows Server 2019 Datacenter on DL380e Gen8 the hardware so there is limited soaftware
from HP that can be used.

The HP ProLiant iLO 3/4 Channel Interface Driver for Windows X86 (version 3.4.0.0 or later) must be installed prior to this component.

https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/sof...
...\cp036919

HPE ProLiant Agentless Management Service for Windows X86

https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/sof...
...\cp030038.exe

Ubuntu

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ins...

-- Prepare disk

sudo lshw -C disk

*-disk:0
...
logical name: /dev/sda
...

*-disk:1
...
logical name: /dev/sdb
...

sudo parted /dev/sdb
mklabel gpt
unit TB
mkpart
primary
ext4
0%
100%
print
quit

Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

sudo mkdir /media/vaultlarge

sudo chmod 777 /media/vaultlarge

sudo nano -Bw /etc/fstab
...
/dev/sdb1 /media/vaultlarge ext4 defaults 0 2
...

sudo mount -a

-- Share disk

sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Add to end o file:

[vaultlarge]
comment = Large vault on Ubuntu
path = /media/vaultlarge
read only = no
browsable = yes

sudo systemctl restart smbd
sudo systemctl restart nmbd


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